Youngest Microsoft systems engineer in the world

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So all the other nine year old geeks who pursued ...

Really? All it takes is the ability to memorize and regurgitate a few facts? All the "idol worshipers" who know the statistics of a hundred baseball players are "smart and intelligent"? All the "Pokemon" fanatics who've memorized a few dozen equations are "smart and intelligent"? How do you decide which facts are important? How do you decide how many facts are necessary?

So? What's your point?

I told you that they have an excellent memory and a fascination for mythology. Calling them "smart and intelligent" because of their age is an insult.

According to my studies it's right there at your age.

I may have been all of five years old when I started questioning praise for "gifted" people.

When you start making questions like that, you lost it.

LMAO!

I get to appreciate the skills, wisdom, and intelligence people cultivate regardless of age without masturbating over an average kid with a technical bend. I don't have to insult curiosity, fascination, and dedication with "aren't you special". Boy am I glad I lost "it"!

I may have been all of five years old when I started questioning praise for "gifted" people.

Well, we were all questioning a lot of things at the turn of the century.

My opinion is that phantomotap is way to smart for all of us and, frankly, trying to take in all of the wisdom he has provided in this thread has bored me like a hillbilly trying to watch a chess match. We should all just give up.